Giovanni Garofalo
CEO
Leads Hyper Tact and the company's development path.
Team
Different skills, one shared project.
Hyper Tact brings together scientific sensor development, artificial intelligence, computing hardware and company leadership.
Anna Maria Coclite
Scientific lead and sensor development
Contributes to the research and development of the tactile sensing technology at the core of Hyper Tact.
Biography
Anna Maria Coclite is a Full Professor at the Department of Physics of the University of Bari since 2024. From 2018 to 2024 she was Associate Professor at the Institute of Solid State Physics of Graz University of Technology, after being assistant professor at the same institution from 2013. From 2010 to 2013 she was a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Professor Karen Gleason. She received her Ph.D. in Chemical Science from the University of Bari in 2010. In 2016 she won a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for her research on “Smart Core-shell sensor arrays for artificial skins”; in 2023 she won an ERC Proof of Concept grant to test commercialization pathways for that work.
Alberto Perrotta
Scientific lead and sensor development
Contributes to the research and development of the sensor for the Hyper Tact project.
Technical contributors
rAIse
Artificial intelligence
Develops the AI component of the project.
Sfera Informatica
Computing hardware
Develops the computing-hardware component of the project.